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Post-Jazz

May 7, 2009
What do you get when you infuse driving rock rhythms and cover songs, along with folk traditions of several countries together and put it in the hands and horns of jazz players? Well, for this New Sounds, we'll call it "post-jazz." Folks like The Bad Plus make this music, having fun by covering songs by Yes or Rush, and upping the fun quotient even more by doing arrangements of songs by Ligeti and Stravinsky. Then there's the Tiptons Sax Quartet who have incorporated Balkan music and Italian folk song rhythms into what they're doing. Also, from the UK, as if to answer The Bad Plus, there's the Neil Cowley Trio, bringing "prog" into the conversation as well. We'll hear from all these bands, along with something from the Matthew Shipp Trio and more.

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